William Davis is a multi-millionaire entrepreneur and playboy, secretly acting as an investor in Cicada, supplying them with finances and using his successful "Colossus" business as a front for his deeds.

William Davis was born to a successful rich family in Vermont. As he grew older, becoming more involved with drugs, partying, and the criminal underworld, he staged his parents' death in order to inherit their fortune and businesses.

Davis became heavily involved in criminal world, doing dealings with cartels, mafias, and various street gangs, most often having drugs smuggled into the states and dealing them. Davis eventually became involved with the Mastermind, first coming into conflict as rival drug traffickers and dealers, but later became colleagues with Davis ending their feud and becoming in-charge of Cicada's drug-based operations.

William bases most of his operations out of the Caribbean sea and islands, where he resides.